Only a few more days to visit the exhibition on the actions of Franco Mazzucchelli, at Milan's Museo del Novecento

Only a few more days to visit the exhibition Non ti abbandonerò mai. Franco Mazzucchelli, Actions 1964 - 1979, running at the Museo del Novecento in Milan until June 10, 2018 (it opened last March 8). The exhibition is entirely dedicated to the fifteen-year period 1964 - 1979 in the production of Franco Mazzucchelli (Milan, Italy, 1939), an artist who, precisely since the 1960s, has worked on the experimentation of plastic materials with an avant-garde research that led him to create, ahead of his time, large-scale inflatable structures, installed in open places, created and abandoned to establish a new relationship with the urban and natural landscape. These were installations used to investigate the social role of the artwork through the active participation of the public.

Today, Mazzucchelli devotes himself to a more intimate artistic research, based on geometry and color, but always under the sign of experimentation. However, the exhibition at the Museo del Novecento, curated by Sabino Maria Frassà and Iolanda Ratti, focuses precisely on PVC and polyethylene inflatables, installed and abandoned in squares, suburbs, and natural places, and left to passersby. “While the research is thus aimed at the pioneering use of plastic materials,” reads the exhibition presentation, “it also fits fully into the socio-cultural context of those years, in which artists sought to leave the museum and bring art into public spaces. Mazzucchelli’s interventions, often made without notice or permission, touch on ’non-places,’ redefining them through new coordinates: the work, and thus its fate, is determined by the public, which experiences new spaces of interaction and appropriation.” In Milan, for the first time, two-dimensional compositions derived from the actions of the time are presented: these are assemblages and reworkings of photographs documenting his interventions, combined with fragments of the surviving works. The exhibition also stands as a tribute to the artist, and at the same time as a narrative of social and cultural engagement in a rapidly changing country.

The exhibition can be visited during the opening hours of the Museo del Novecento: Mondays from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesdays through Sundays from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Thursdays and Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Info at www.museodelnovecento.org. Silvana Editoriale catalog.

Pictured is an intervention by Franco Mazzucchelli in Turin in 1971.

Only a few more days to visit the exhibition on the actions of Franco Mazzucchelli, at Milan's Museo del Novecento

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